Baldwin deletes Twitter account
Alec Baldwin announced Wednesday he has left Twitter, saying it’s full of “a— holes” who don’t appreciate that he was using “irony” when he made a joke about Gillian Anderson’s fluctuating American and British accents after she won a Golden Globe award Sunday night.
Baldwin apparently is mad that his joke reminded people that his influencer wife is mired in a controversy over using a fluctuating American and Spanish accent for more than 10 years to mislead people about being Spanish.
The famously testy “30 Rock” star fumed in an Instagram video, saying Twitter is where “all the a—holes in the United States and beyond go to get their advanced degrees in a—holines.” Baldwin, 62, added: “You can’t do any irony in the United States anymore because the United States is such an uptight, stressed out place.”
For the record, Anderson does goes back and forth in using American and British accents, but the actor, who is American, has been upfront in interviews about how her fluctuating accents are usually unintended and the product of spending her childhood in the U.K. and living in London since 2002.
Baldwin’s Anderson kerfuffle started earlier in the day when he responded to news about her using an American accent when she accepted a supporting actress Golden Globe award for “The Crown.” “Switching accents? That sounds … fascinating,” Baldwin tweeted.
It appears that Baldwin was trying to make light of the fact that Hilaria Baldwin’s Spanish heritage controversy started because people on Twitter noticed that she sometimes used a Spanish accent in interviews and on her mom podcast.
Baldwin was missing the real irony in his wisecrack — his influencer wife, unlike Anderson, has been anything but upfront about her background.
While Hilaria Baldwin, 37, claimed she never lied about being born in Boston, Twitter sleuths found multiple examples of the yoga instructor and mom podcaster allowing interviewers for Spanish-language publications — and even officials at a U.N. session — to say she was born in Spain or to call her “half-Spanish.”